It's a touchy subject, no doubt, because if it applies to a family where one or both parents smoke, then inadvertently they'd have to apply the law to vehicles also. When they passed the law in South Carolina on Augusta 1, 2008 making it so that any public place that allowed smoking (bars, restaurants, etc) no longer was allowed to have smoking indoors. The benefits were that bars no longer smelled like smoked ass and same for restaurants) but the downside is that people would just go right outside the door and you have to cut your way through the smoke that's RIGHT there at the door. There's no sign mandatory stating "No smoking within 50 feet of this door" or anything. And cars, now that smoking is definitely going to have smokers smoking in them a lot more, that's just going to ruin that car's interior because I don't care how much you clean it, you will NOT get that smell out. So then, selling used cars are going to have to be labeled "Smoking car for X years" or something.

I'm not against smoking but the downsides to it are a bit much, imho. It'll pan out eventually but how long is to be determined.

Back to the families, I know that if that were tried to be passed here, it probably would be shot down unbelievably fast due to the things that would occur. What's preventing them from smoking on their own property? Who's going to check? I know if I smoked and someone knocked on my door to "check" my smoking status, I'd be writing letters to the state and anyone else complaining about it, I'd be pissed the F off.

In the world of protection, one thing is for sure: security = 1 / convenience.